From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Letter from a director of Wellworthy Piston Rings to H. Royce, expressing delight with his new Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\3\ scan0195 | |
| Date | 17th December 1936 | |
| SERVICE DEPOTS LONDON 89 BLACKFRIARS RD S.E.1 TELEPHONE: WATERLOO 5762-3 BIRMINGHAM 143 SUFFOLK STREET TELEPHONE: MIDLAND 0838 MANCHESTER 232 DEANSGATE TELEPHONE: BLACKFRIARS 5914 NEWCASTLE MILLICAN'S BUILDINGS, MARKET ST.{Capt. P. R. Strong} TELEPHONE 23874 ON ADMIRALTY, WAR OFFICE, AIR MINISTRY, INDIA OFFICE LISTS WELLWORTHY PISTON RINGS LIMITED PISTON & PISTON RING SPECIALISTS LYMINGTON HANTS WORKS & HEAD OFFICE STANFORD RD SERVICE DEPOTS LEEDS 52 WOODHOUSE LANE TELEPHONE 25774 CROYDON 246 HIGH STREET TELEPHONE 0234 SOUTHAMPTON 17 PORTSWOOD ROAD TELEPHONE 74778 HULL 285 ANLABY ROAD TELEPHONE 15312 TELEPHONE: LYMINGTON 520 (4 LINES) TELEGRAMS: WELLWORTHY CODE: MARCONI DIRECTORS: G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} ALEXANDER J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} W. HOWLETT C. B. KAY P. WALDEN OUR REF JH/CJR. YOUR REF [Handwritten top right: 125B] 17th December, 1936. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Royce Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd. Derby. Dear Mr. Royce, I am pleased to tell you that I have now got delivery of my Bentley, and I want to thank you for putting the idea of a Bentley into my head. Quite frankly, I had got the opinion that it was a car that was out of my reach: I thought it was too expensive a luxury, and that people would only say I was making too much profit and all that kind of silly tosh. Now I realise that it is something entirely different from anything else I have had. I picked it up last Friday in London, and I drove it home, and I was really thrilled and interested the whole way down. I am as proud of it as anything I have ever had, and I want to thank you very much for putting the idea into my head that I ought to have a Bentley. I am now convinced I ought to have had it years ago! Still, now it has come I am delighted. Yours sincerely, [Signature of J.W. Howlett] [Handwritten bottom left: initials and 19/12/-] | ||